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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

How to Save the US Natural Gas Sector

How to Save the US Natural Gas Sector

US natural gas prices are at record lows–about where they were in 1976, and at the low points in the 1990s, in today’s dollars (Figure 1). Figure 1. US wellhead natural gas prices based on EIA data, adjusted to January 2012 price levels using US CPI All Urban Price data. There are several reasons why US natural gas prices are so low: • Our pricing system is based on short-term supply and demand, and storage facilities are limited. It is very easy for supply to overwhelm the system, and prices to drop very low in response,…Read more...

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